Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and other countries severed diplomatic ties with Qatar earlier this week and cut off air, sea and land travel to the peninsular nation. On Wednesday, Turkey fast-tracked its plans to deploy extra troops to Qatar - reportedly to train regional security forces and conduct joint exercises - in a critical show of support for the small Gulf state as it faces isolation from its neighbors.

The specs of the HomePod certainly reinforce this idea - the Apple-designed sub woofer inside the speaker is paired with an A8 chip (from the iPhone 6). Plus, as a single wireless speaker, HomePod is more expensive than any comparable product on the market, including Sonos, a company that has nearly always been synonymous with pricey hardware.

Trump Jr also asked whether it was "a joke" that Comey asked a friend to share a memo about his conversation with the president. Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., also said he wasn't able to watch the testimony because he was in a hearing , but that he was glad Comey appeared before the committee.

With all the improvements and updates coming our way, it looks like Apple "cranked it up to 11" with the next iOS.Apple has announced iOS 11 at their latest developer conference and this free software update will be released to consumers this autumn.Apple has also finally stopped selling the iPad mini 2, so that could be chopped too.

Finding that out, as Comey noted, is now up to the special counsel, Robert Mueller. Joseph, said in a statement. Mueller will have wide latitude to go where the facts lead. But hours before the president arrived to make his first public comments of the day, Comey told the Senate intelligence committee that Trump tried to get him to pledge loyalty and drop an investigation into potential collusion between Russian Federation and Trump's campaign.

She added that the USA could make clear to Qatar that, "we value our relationship but we have concern" and to the other parties that "we would like to see more dialogue, and preserve a unified GCC". Yet Wahba said "there's still no evidence of an active U.S. diplomatic initiative to get serious dialogue between the parties". Qatar argues that if its engagement with Iran, GCC influence on immediate neighbours and pipelines' sea route are viewed collectively in terms of an organic whole or a ...

Apple said the computer is the most powerful Mac it has ever built, with the latest and most powerful processors on the market. "Today iMac gets a huge graphics performance increase, faster CPU performance, Thunderbolt 3 and a brighter Retina display with support for 1 billion colours".

Analysts have raised the prospect of a palace coup in Qatar, a hereditary monarchy with a history of such changes in leadership. Qatar has vehemently denied the allegations. Riyadh also wants Doha to alter the editorial policy of the Qatar-funded TV broadcaster Al Jazeera , which the Saudis accuse of meddling in domestic affairs of other nations.

Mr Trump stressed the importance of countries in the region working together, the White House said. Marri said he would raise his concerns with a team from Amnesty International on Wednesday and would also appeal to United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein to intervene.

You'll also be able to control HomeKit enabled smart home products by voice. Like every element of Apple's smart home strategy so far, the function is there if you want it, but Apple doesn't really expect you to use it. "If Apple had not done this, its customers would embrace Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant". Apple Is Finally Bringing An Upgraded Siri Home: One of the messages from Apple this week is Siri has finally grown up.

Coming soon - at least sooner than Trump's impeachment. A crucial question is what Trump meant when Comey says the president told the Federal Bureau of Investigation director, "I hope you can let this go". "And that's not just this senator's opinion; it is the unanimous determination of the entire USA intelligence community". Neither was convicted by the Senate.

The speaker has the "power to rock the house", according to Schiller, who said the team worked to make HomePod an potent assistant for news, messages, weather, traffic, home controls and more. Some industry insiders, however, note Apple will be under more pressure to improve the computing smarts of its Siri software in the face of offerings from rivals Google and Amazon.

Sky News said the Conservatives would retain between 315 and 325 seats. " Britain on a knife edge", headlined the pro-May Daily Mail , while the conservative Sun tabloid described the situation as "Mayhem", saying there was fear of a "coalition of chaos" led by the opposition Labour party .

The ministry released the first names of the men and published pictures of their corpses. He also said the attackers were armed with AK-47s and hand grenades and wore what appeared to be explosive vests. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister Of Iran, tweeted late Wednesday, stating he found the White House Statement in response to the Iran terror attacks "repugnant" and that the people of his nation reject a fake show of friendship.

Any apps that only run in 32-bit will not appear in search results in the updated version of the App Store , nor will they be available for the Purchased tab if they had previously been installed. The Control Center has now been redesigned to help you control everything from a single page. Fortunately, that's exactly what Apple is believed to have planned for its next iPhone, the so-called iPhone 8.

David Ige . The mayors of Pittsburgh and Paris have united in voicing their support for the Paris Agreement after President Donald Trump invoked the two cities while discussing his reasons for pulling out of the accord. "It is imperative that the world know that in the USA, the actors that will provide the leadership necessary to meet our Paris commitment are found in city halls, state capitals, colleges and universities and businesses".

The Daily Mail claims that the other two people were banking officials and that they were also injured, although nothing has been confirmed. Police haven't officially confirmed reports that the blast was caused by a parcel bomb containing a small amount of explosives.

However Labour sources say the tide is now flowing in the opposite direction, with the party hoping to slash SNP majorities - if not win seats - in Glasgow , Lanarkshire and the Lothians. Ms Sturgeon said she did believe that - but claimed Ms Davidson had already made the conversation public knowledge when she referred to it in a newspaper interview in February.

Sturgeon said it was a "a disappointing result" for her party, two years after it won a landslide in Scotland. Speaking to reporters in Edinburgh , where she was showing supporting for candidate Ian Murray, Ms Dugdale said she was at her party's headquarters in Glasgow when the conversation took place on the day after the Brexit vote.

Kinnevik has begun an accelerated book-building process to institutional investors of around 10.9 million existing shares in Rocket, which constitutes 6.6 per cent of the German company's issued share capital, according to a statement from Kinnevik Wednesday.

In any case, if you want to be able to control the volume level of Google Assistant independently from your device's current media volume, I've made a crude, but completely free app with no advertisements that can do just that. I've been noticing a weird issue with Google Home off and on for the last couple weeks, but it has become particularly annoying this weekend. It's pretty annoying in the meantime, though.

There is a new iMessage App Drawer so that it is easier to find the apps you want while you are in an iMessage conversation. "App development is a cut-throat area of digital business, and one in which ease of use is a massive contributor to success".

The Ulster Unionist Party and the SDLP were both wiped out completely, losing two and three seats respectively. Political leaders in Northern Ireland had cast the election as a referendum on whether voters want to be part of the United Kingdom or neighbouring Ireland after Brexit and a nationalist surge at regional elections in March raised the stakes in the long and divisive dispute over the province's status.

Earlier, the United States Justice Department announced charges against victor with Top Secret security clearance, after she allegedly leaked classified information to an online media outlet. Prosecutors also said that during a phone conversation with her mother while in custody, which was recorded, victor said, "Mom, those documents ".

Louis. They help with adoption when needed, and protect women from domestic abuse. But Alderwoman Megan Ellyia Green of the 15th ward said that the governor's latest announcement doesn't explain exactly what he is trying to do. Clearly, Gov. Greitens understands the urgency here and that the lives of women and children are on the line. This special session, his second as governor, involves an abortion bill that the House had passed but got stuck in the senate.

Comey says he did offer the president that "assurance", but resisted Trump's appeals to make that information public. Comey also said he didn't know whether Sessions had violated the terms of his recusal, and that would depend on whether the reason for his firing was related to the Russian Federation investigation.

While the troops are not expected to fight for Qatar should hostilities break out, Demir says Turkey should have avoided the appearances of giving Qatar military support when it could mediate the crisis. Its influence goes beyond money. "Our relationship with the USA speaks for itself". Other names involving Egypt include more Brotherhood members and those once belonging to Gamaa Islamiya, an Islamist group that carried out a series of bloody attacks in Egypt in the 1990s before renouncing ...

May's party, already ill at ease after a gaffe-prone campaign, will now ask how she could throw away the commanding poll lead that she enjoyed at the start of the election campaign. In February 1974, the incumbent Conservative administration lost its majority. "The market will be praying that this exit poll has got it wrong", said Lee Hardman, a currency analyst with Japanese financial giant MUFG in London .

Such an arrangement would be extremely fragile, however, as the government would have to unite policymakers from various sides of the political spectrum, including liberals and center-leftist Labour voters as well as Scottish independence supporters, since Labour and the SNP combined would not have enough votes for a majority if exit polls turn out to be correct.

It is possible that when iOS is released later this year, Apple will delete these obsolete apps from its App Store . iOS 11's refinement and redesign of Apple's iOS ecosystem has been the talk of the town in the past 2 days. That makes outside developers less willing to build apps using the technology. The mode will get activated automatically when you connect your iPhone/iPad to your vehicle via Bluetooth or cable.

Comey recalled having nine one-on-one conversations with the president in just four months, one in which he says the president asked him for a pledge of loyalty. The testimony was damaging - which they always knew it would be - but they were satisfied that he did not appear to further hurt the White House, the president or staff legally.

That would spell catastrophe for the reigning Conservative Party and Prime Minster Theresa May . Although Labour has ruled out a formal coalition, it could still govern via an informal alliance supported by the left-leaning Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party and the Green Party.

On rare occasions, the winning party does not gain enough seats to form an absolute majority, i.e.it has won fewer seats than all the other parties put together. Former UK finance minister George Osborne says a hung parliament would be "completely catastrophic for the Conservatives". "But equally it's quite hard looking at those numbers to see how Labour could put together a coalition so it's on a real knife edge".